Business & Economics
Wacker and Dow Corning open China’s largest integrated silicone manufacturing site
After four years of construction, Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) and Dow Corning Corp. (Midland, Mich; www.dowcorning.com) today officially inaugurated their joint integrated silicone-manufacturing site in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu province, China. The facility will serve fast-growing demand for silicone materials…
Linde expands gas-supply infrastructure for GCL
The technology group The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) is set to further expand its gas supply infrastructure for GCL-Poly Energy Holdings, China’s largest producer of highly purified polycrystalline silicon (polysilicon). Building on the existing contract with GCL, this deal…
BASF: Production facility for battery materials
In Elyria, Ohio, BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has commenced construction of a more than $50-million production facility for innovative cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries used to power hybrid and full-electric vehicles. The facility is being built with the help…
Foster Wheeler: Solar-steam generator for in UAE
The Global Power Group of Foster Wheeler AG’s (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) has been awarded a contract to design and supply a solar steam generator system (preheaters, drum-type evaporators, and superheaters) including interconnecting piping, valves, primary I&C, steel structures, and site…
Evonik and SKC: JV for H2O2 production
The signing of a deal in Essen on November 11, 2010, sees SKC (Seoul, Korea) acquiring a 45% share in Evonik Degussa Peroxide Korea Co. (Ulsan), a subsidiary of Evonik Degussa GmbH (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com). Evonik Degussa Peroxide Korea is…
U.S. trade balance for chemicals business surplus improves
The trade balance in the chemicals industry improved to a surplus of $3.4 billion, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau that was included in the most recent American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) Weekly Chemistry and Economic…
Evonik grants licenses to EPC Engineering Consulting
At the end of 2011, the Russian company Korund Cyan will commission, in the Nizhny Novgorod province of the Russian Federation, one of the most advanced facilities in the world for manufacturing sodium cyanide. The plant will rely on CyPlus…
Petrobras selects UOP technology for two refineries
UOP LLC (Des Planes, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, announced today that Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) has selected UOP to provide all of the process technologies for two new maximum diesel refineries to be built in Brazil. UOP hydrocracking and…
BASF restructures paper-chemicals business
With a view to future growth markets for paper chemicals and dyestuffs in China, Indonesia and India, BASF SE‘s (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) Paper Chemicals division (www.paper-chemicals.basf.com) will reorganize its global business structures. The business in optical brighteners for paper is…
JGC lands water-treatment project in Saudi-Kuwait Neutral Zone
JGC Gulf International, JGC Corp.’s (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.co.jp) subsidiary in Saudi Arabia, has been awarded the Water Treatment Facilities – Phase 3 (Onshore) project by Khafji Joint Operations (KJO), a joint venture between Aramco Gulf Operations and Kuwait Gulf Oil…